Wichita eagle., 1887-05-07
BUILDING NOTES.

The builders are hard at work. On every
side are signs of improvement and enterprise
The sides Of the streets are lined with water
and gas mains or with ties and iron for
motor lines Piles upon piles of building
material greet the eye of the persons passing
upon the street. Private residences in great
number are building along the beautiful
shady avenues as well as fringing the suburbs
of the fair city.
a casual glance made in walk over the
city show that the building proposed and
note of whose intended construction was
made through the EAGLE are as fast assum-
ing reality as bricks and stone can De
formed in masonry and walls.
At the Government building the trenches
were all completed yesterday and To-Day
placing the concrete will be commenced.
The board fence around the proposed site OF
the Crawford Daisy opera house yesterday
enclosed busy, active body OF men who
have the excavations for this building III
about the same state of preparation as the
government building.
Across the river at the Garfield University
a large force of bricklayers were
yesterday busily engaged upon the
first story Of the magnificent structure.
As fast as workmen and material can be
found, SO fast are the walls being reared
The plans and specifications for two dor
mitories costing s., coo each have just been
accepted. AS soon as the material can be
gotten, work upon them will be commenced.
One of them will be erected north of the
Main building the other south. The Coop
buildings in the vicinity are now ready for
their roof
At the Martinson block, corner of Seneca
street and Chicago avenue, the side AMI rear
walls of the first story are completed, and
yesterday the brick masons were building
the pressed brick front.
Across Seneca is the Lawrence and Sea-
man building; three story brick block
sOx1OO. Here the masons were engaged upon
the foundation.
The Kelch building further down Chic ago
avenue has not yet its foundation entirely
completed; but the Chris Kimmely neat two
story fifty-foot front is now ready for the
roof
The Barnes block on East Douglas avenue
has the side walls of its first story completed
and yesterday the carpenters We're laying the
ioists for the floor of the second story.
That magnificent hotel structure, the
Carey Grand, is ROW interesting the plaster
ers and drawing near to completion.
The gem of a Flechheimer building, at the
corner of Market, now exhibits its beauty
and elegance But it is almost entirely COM
pleted; the upper stories in fact are already
occupied and the lower needs but the plate
glass for the front.
At the Stackman building on North Main
the foundation was nearing completion;
teams were all the day driving up to unload
stone for this purpose.
The Getto building is almost complete; the
lower story will soon secure its first coat of
plastering.
The foundation of the Fletcher building
has its north wall completed, and soon it too
will be ready for the brick masons.
Work at the stone mill, an industry at
present interesting the people Of the city, is
commenced in earnest The foundation for
the boiler and engine house are completed.
Workmen are now engaged upon the founda-
ton for the saving and lainiug machinery.
The buildings here will be, besides an office,
two in number. One for the machinery will
be 4oxS0 and covered with corrugated iron.
The other the stone cutting building will be
20x60, have a roof but open Sides Mr..
Balance, the aesthetic manager is going to
get his Office up ON unique design.
two stories l6x32, and built from all kinds Of
stones in the city arranged in courses and of
elegant workmanship. The interior will be
richly and tastefully finished.
AMI SO on to the hundreds OF other struct-
urcs 10 ell state of constru elton for business,
pleasure and homes